Carnegie Hall

When Chris Cornell gets up on stage, he’s a familiar sight. The iconic singer, who turns 50 next year, looks practically the same as when he first fronted Soundgarden, a band that, along with Nirvana and Pearl Jam, helped put Seattle and grunge on the musical map. He’s the longhaired guy in the Temple of the Dog video for “Hunger Strike,” horsing around with Eddie Vedder, the figure out in front of three Rage Against the Machine-ers in Audioslave, the performer behind “You Know My Name,” the mid-’00s theme song for the James Bond flick “Casino Royale.” He’s a familiar property, a regular, blue-eyed American rock dude with the...

Related "Carnegie Hall" Articles

An appearance by Six13, a six-man New York City-based a capella group with an exciting style of Jewish music, will highlight the seventh annual Cantor Stephen Dubov Memorial Concert on Sunday, Feb. 15 at Temple Beth El of Boca Raton.
Six13 sounds like...

Joe Cocker met his idol Ray Charles in 1969 when he got invited backstage after a concert at Carnegie Hall. It was the first time he came face to face with the musical genius who had inspired him as a teenager growing up in northern England.
"I...

Performers often dream of being on stage at New York City's legendary Carnegie Hall.
For McArthur High School's Julia Bravo, that dream will soon be a reality. The Hollywood senior was recently selected for the High School Honors Performance Series at...

He lifts the woodwind and dampens the reed. Fingers press silver keys. Shoulders broaden, eyes narrow. A mournful note rises like the hush of a winter afternoon slipping to dusk. He follows the long lines, breath draining from him — until silence — when...

If we're lucky, at some point during Cheyenne Jackson's performance in Fort Lauderdale on Valentine's Day, the Tony Award-winning former "30 Rock" star will slide into the heartache of "A Case of You," a smoldering torch from Joni...

Paul Reiser doesn’t talk about his career in his stand-up act, even though that career ranges from the movies “Diner,” “Aliens” and “Whiplash” to the sitcom “Mad About You.”
“I talk about my family, what makes me laugh, what makes me frustrated,” said...

Bess Myerson, the former beauty queen, television personality and New York politician who spent four decades in the public eye before her glamorous image was tarnished by scandal, has died. She was 90.
Myerson died Dec. 14 at her home in Santa Monica....

When President Obama announced plans last week to restore diplomatic relations with Cuba, U.S. industries — from automotive to tourism — seemed elated by the possibility of being able to operate in Cuba. The news was greeted with just as much...

Clint Eastwood has occupied a corner bungalow on the Warner Bros. lot for 40 years, long enough to have directed 28 movies for the studio and know to keep a bag of peanuts handy for the squirrels who like to venture inside his office door.“That one...

The stylistic breadth of material in this year's best boxed sets was vast:
Miles Davis: "Miles at the Fillmore" (Columbia/Legacy; $49.98). Call it jazz, rock, fusion, whatever, the music that trumpeter Davis made in his "Bitches Brew"...

If practice is what gets you to Carnegie Hall, as the saying goes, what gets you to the Music Center has always been a car.
The performing arts complex, which will turn 50 next month, sits atop Bunker Hill in downtown Los Angeles like a late-modern,...

The challenge of ranking college basketball venues is this: They're always changing. And, no, we're not talking about adding a Dippin' Dots station.
Think of it like the scene from "Sideways" when Maya speaks of her love of vino: "I like...

The Florida Lakes Symphony Orchestra will open its 10th season with a program of audience favorites and a new conductor, Eimear Noone.
Noone, who was born in Ireland, lives in Malibu and composes and conducts music for video games, among other...

Music and sadness is an endless and much too studied subject.
Does sad music make us feel better by first making us feel worse, like, say, having a tooth pulled? Or do we feel better simply because we are thankful we may not suffer as, say, a...

Imagine if someone in your neighborhood ran a concert series and invited friends and neighbors to attend for free as their guests. That's pretty much what the Beacon Hill Concert Series, on a beautiful privately owned property near Stroudsburg, is all...

This post has been corrected. See below for details.
It wasn’t a big leap to wonder during Saturday’s opening night of Neil Young’s four-night run of solo acoustic concerts in Hollywood whether Jesus, if he returned to address a modern-day audience,...

In his new memoir, "The Man Who Changed My Life," jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval shares recollections of his bebop idol, Dizzy Gillespie, the American jazz giant and father figure who helped him defect from Cuba to the United States 24 years...

Former Miami Heat star Shaquille O’Neal doesn’t miss many slam dunks. Nana Meriwether is a slam dunk, and Shaq missed it.
Meriwether, who will travel from her home in New York to take part in the fifth annual Wild Fox Model Beach Volleyball Tournament on...